FRIDAY AUGUST 24 1923.
INTIMATIONS.
THE HONGKONG ROPE MANU- FACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
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N INTERIM DIVIDEND of ONE DOLLAR (31) per share for account 1923 will be payable on THURSDAY the 23rd, August 1923.
Shareholders are requested to apply · for Dividend Warrants at the Company's Offico St. George's Building, Hongkong. THE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be closed from TUESDAY the 14th Augnet 1923 to THURSDAY the 23rd August. 1923, both daya inclusive.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., General Manggars, Hongkong, August 7, 1923.
V.R.C. FETE.
A Night Swimming Fête will be
held at the Victoria Recreation Club on SATURDAY, the 25th inst., commencing at 9 o'clock. Band in attendance.
Admission: Non-Members $1.00, Members, Sailors and Soldiers 50 cents. Reserved Seats $1.50.
OWING
NOTICE.
to considerable damage) during the Typhoon at the Works of the STEAM LAUNDRY CO., the Management beg to announce to their. numerons customers that all LAUNDRY DELIVERIES WILL BE DELAYED.
THE STEAM LAUNDRY CO.,
YAUNATI. August 18th, 1923.
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ITEMS FROM FAR AND NEAR
While it is true that the Belgian railway workers are showing a more conciliatory spirit, reperts that they have, resaned work are unfounded..
The capture of a sturgeon weigh FOR SALE Who's Who, one copy
1922 edition. Cheap. Applying 220 pounds, one of the largest Box No. 1444, c/o "Chlua Mail." ever landed in this section of the St. Lawrence, is reported from Ogden's Island, where a fisherman named Leclair brought it ashope.
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THE HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LTD.
ANNOUNCEMENT.
WIN to the receipt of macrous complaints from patrons as to the incivility of various members of the Staff of the Hotels under the Management of this Compsuy in Hongkong, such complaints being to the effect that "Cash has heen demandad'in satisfaction of Liquore supplied, and patrons thereby inconvenienced by not being allowed to sign "chita," we beg to draw the attention of our clientele to the terms of the Litora Ordinance, 1917, an extract from which is hereby givan -
2. In this Ordinance.
("Cash" means any coins or notes current in the Colony.
(1) Sale" includes any transaction in which intoxicating liquor is supplied for any consirioration whatesovar, direct or indirect.
3. (1) Subject to the provision of subsection (2) of this section, ma person shall sell tag intoxinating liquor for consumption on or at Any Herned premises except for rash.
(2) Sub-section (1) of this section shall not apply to the following
(a) any sale by the proprietor of an hotel to a person residing at
the hotel:
(b) any sale ly the proprietor of an hotel of Fquor to he emaimed
in the dining room of the hotel at one of the regular mests of the hotel or of liquor to be consumed in conjunction with any other houd file meal for which a charge of at least thirty cents can be reasonably made
(e) any sale in accordance with the coveli jong of his iconee by
the bolder of a restaurant aljanet licetics,
4. Where any intoxicating liquor is sold by a servant or employee fu contravention of section 3 of this Ordinanes the employer, whether a natuurd person or a body corporate, shall he deemed to be guilty of on offence against this Ordininre unless be proves affirmatively that the s'e was against Lis express orders and without his consent or
coumivance.
5. Every person to whom any liquor is, to the knowledge
of such person,
supplied in contravention of this Ordin- ance shall also be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance.
The co-operation of our Patrons, with a view to assisting us to carry out the provisions of the Liquora Orclinaree, is respectfully requested.
FOR AND ON BEHALF OF
THE HONGKONG HOTEL COMPANY, LTD.
WALTER I HAWKER, SECRETARY.
Haugkong, 15th August, 1500.
In the Central Provinces a re-j A little girl, Ivy Margaret Bow- Close observers of the politicaf crudescence of the revolutionary loy, of Chiswick, who fell into a situation in Indiaview it with soma flag agitation is recorded, It is bath of hot water which her mother uneasiness: There is the possi assuming proportions virtually had placed of the floor, died inbility of the victory of Mr. Das and amounting to civil disobedience on Chiswick Hospital,
his followers at the forthcomin elections. The prospects of a survival of the refarmed Consti tution, for any considerable time after the elections is not bright.,
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a considerable scale.
Ten thousand barrels of jam pulp New York bricklayers, who are were destroyed in the fire receiving £2 foran eight hour day, have struck work as their demand for £2 8s per day has not been conceded. This is the first serious discovered. fabour dispute of the season.
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The question of the free passage The Admiralty have sold part of of the Kiel Canal by foreign ships the sunken German flect at Scapa will be considered by the League Flow to Mr. A. G. McBain, charter-Court, which shortly resumes its ed accountant, of Glasgow, acting sittings at The Hague. Some time on behalf of a company which pro-ago it was denied by the Germans poses to salve the vessels and to certain Allied vessels.
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Scamen and firemen aboard foreign steamships at New York have passed resolutions endorsing the threat of, their 'fellow workers at Havre to strike unless the French ships leaving for the United States after June 9 carried the two litres of wine to which the men are entitled under the French maritime law.
According to Mr. Samuel Gom-¦ break them up.
On the ground that the Govern- pers, European Labour unions must
ment, by unwarranted and dis- "The scum of Galata quayside" creditable inflation of the currency, drop, "isms" dogmas, which have 'An open cheque for £100, pro-is the description applied to the has deliberately destroyed the no proper place in the trade union perly drawn by a well-known man mob which attacked the Greek value of American investments in movement, if they wish to co-oper on the Charing Cross branch of Patriarch's place in Constantinople, property in Germany, the Associa ate with American Labour.
Willians Deacons Bank, was pick- and assaulted the ed up in Westminster and deposit-Turkish police were called in but Foreign Securities has filed with Patriarch.. tion of American Holders cf Vatil thm Chinese
Governed by the honest finder at the did nothing. The Patriarch was the Mixed Claims Commission a ment have restored peace nearest police station.
rescued by French and Italian gen-plea that the rights of American and order in the country the Bank-
darmes, who dispersed the mob. ing Consortium have decided to
nationals be protected. M. Millerand delivered an in- give no further loans, The Govera|portaní speech, in which he dealt ment urge that their impotence and with the question of German re-organisation, called the Solding," In Sicily a new bar nondescript the consequent anarchy are due to parations, and declared that | their impecuntiosity.
has been established in opposition Germany would pay what she owed to France. He recalled the to the Fascisti. Reports that the According to thy Corriere d'aliu precedent set by Germany in 1870. Sicilian Maffia" are not correct. society is an emanation of the the two portraits of the Pope which
During his tour of the country Pius XI gave to the king and
British delegates to the Conven- Signor Mussolini will visit Sicily of Associated Advertising with a view to giving a new in- Queen of England were executed tion by a young nun, stated to be of Clubs the World, which
petus to the formation of Fascisti English nationality. Some time meets at Atlantic City, New ago the Pope received the nun, and Jersey, arrived in New York, and Kroups, be was enchanted with her art, were viven a great reception by which critics describe as of very the advertising men of the United
State's. high order.
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Greu interest has been created Never has Niagara district seen. Ja London, and huch excitement such a wealth of cherries as this in Paris, by the reports of the sug-year, particularly the later varieties. gestion of the Belgian Government Orchards of the Niagara district are in favour of the restumption of filtred with the desirable fruit, but a consultations between all the comparatively low price is being Allies, to be followed by collec-received for the fruit on the local tive Inter-Allied action, when Ger- markets this year. many salimits her amended repar- ations offer,
Despatches from Allahabad state tint Tarhat-Haidari has been evacuated by the inhabitants, as after the eartlake, the buildings are no longer safe. One village eight miles south of this town, com prising 500 houses, was completely destroyed, not nae persna escaping, It is estimated that between 3,000 and 4,000 persons' were killed.
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Delegates to the International Congress of Dancing Masters, now in session at Paris, are showing marked opposition to these dances of American origin which have Mile. had so long an innings. Henriette Reguler, of the Opera submitted four new dances, which it is suggested should take the place of the fox-trat, one-step, java, and tango.
M. Poincaré has submitted to the Before the Rome Assize Count British Government his objections the trial was commenced of the to the recent Anglo-Swiss leal in I six prisoners charged in connection connection with the Anatolian, with the shooting affray at Viterbo, railways. It is believed that he on July 12, 1921, when the Comtess does not challenge the genuine Beckett-Czerain was wounded, her Swiss ownership of the interests young son killed, and another son transferred to the British group, injured. The trial recalls the turut invokes the spirit of the Sèvres bulent scenes witnessed in the Treaty and Tri-partite Agreement to claim a third share for France in istraggle between the Fascisti and
the Communists.
the undertaking,
Minister of Public Instruction in Deputy Gentile, the Liberal
Signor Mussolini's Cabinet, has joined the Fascisti party, and in a letter to the Premier,says"Although a Liberal with profound convic tions, I have become convinced that the only true Liberalism to day is represented by your prin- ciples, which return to those of the. glorious days of our Risorgimento.”
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